A Ripon police officer is being credited with helping save the life of a Ripon woman whose SUV plunged into a creek over the weekend. Ripon Police Chief Bill Wallner says Officer Trevor Hanke was on patrol Saturday when he noticed tire tracks leading down an embankment toward Silver Creek and found a vehicle upside down in the creek. The driver, 21 year old, Elizabeth Romo, had crawled out a back window and was holding onto the vehicle in the freezing water. The officer and a bystander helped her out of the water and an ambulance transported her to the hospital for treatment for exposure.
